DILBÈR

Native of the autonomous region of Xinjiang in which her people the Uighur live, Dilbèr graduated from the music academy of Beijing. After having started a successful career in Asia, a career that still flourishes, she began a European career when she took part in the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki.

Engagements followed swiftly in Finland, Europe and the rest of the world. Some of the opera houses Dilbèr has performed in, are Amsterdam, Bonn, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Göteborg, Hamburg, München, Salzburg- and Edinburgh Festivals, Stockholm, Venice and Vienna. In Finland she has a permanent contract with the Finnish National Opera.

Dilbèr has also been working with some of Europe’s most exciting directors, among others: Giancarlo del Monaco, Peter Mussbach and Dario Fo.

In November 2003 Dilbèr was awarded the most prestigious prize in China “Golden Record” and “Best performer”.

Since 2000 Dilbèr is an honorary professor at Xingjiang Arts College and professor at the Xingjiang University, where the “Dilbèr Vocal Music Art Research Centre” was established in the same year.

Dilbèr appears in numerous radio- and TV programs. Finnish, Swedish, Uighur and Chinese television have made documentaries devoted solely to Dilbèr’s career, all nations naming her their “Nightingale”.